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From: rob@dekko.com
[SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Thursday, July
26, 2001 11:17 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: last OS400 ver for M36?
Unless of course you accept
software from any vendor running V5R1.
One example is compile a screen
with HLPARA(*RCD) on V5R1 and try to get
that to run on a machine running anything
earlier than V4R5. And V4R5 will
only work if you have ptf's SF65906 and
SF65976.
Not
counting this bug, sooner or later you'll want to take advantage of
a
newer
feature.
I heard
an interesting story this week. Seems that a software
vendor
polled
their customer base, at a user group meeting, as to whether or
not
they would be
upset if they stopped supporting anything prior to V4R3.
There were ZERO
objections. They were stunned. They pulled some of
them
aside to
confirm. Some confessed to being on an earlier version but
were
praying for
the day when that vendor would stop supporting the old version
so they would have an excuse
for management to upgrade.
Rob Berendt
==================
A smart person learns from
their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
"Bale,
Dan"
<D.Bale@handleman.c
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Please respond
to
MIDRANGE-L
I guess I just look at our
systems - a development box stuck at V3R2 and
several other boxes at V3R7 - and these
things just keep going and going
and going. These will be replaced SOON(Yeah !!!),
but for those companies
who insist on staying with a product that IBM chooses to abandon, I
guess I
don't see
any reason to get upset about being stuck on an old release of
OS/400. In my experience,
by the time IBM drops support for a given
release, that release is stable enough to
run without problems for a long,
long time.
Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400 Ext.
4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
Quiquid latine dictum sit altum
viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerome Draper
[SMTP:jdraper@trilosoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July
25, 2001 7:41 PM
To:
MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: last OS400 ver for
M36?
That's
the plan for now.
Jerry
Jerome
Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and
Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Windows,
Linux,
Sun, and AS/400
Representing Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle,
Lucent, 3Com and Others .....
<http://www.trilosoft.com> - (415) 457-3431 - (415) 258-1658fax -
jdraper@trilosoft.com <mailto:jdraper@trilosoft.com>
----- Original
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From: Bale,
Dan <mailto:D.Bale@handleman.com>
To:
MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <mailto:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent:
Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: last OS400 ver for M36?
>what the
heck are they supposed to do?
Um, why not
just stay at V4R4?
Dan
Bale
IT -
AS/400
Handleman
Company
248-362-4400 Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com <mailto:D.Bale@Handleman.com>
Quiquid
latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerome Draper [SMTP:jdraper@trilosoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:04 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: last OS400 ver for
M36?
Thanks.
How many AS/S36 shops are there and what the heck are
they supposed
to do?
They could
migrate to S36E to get to V4R5 but then S36E sunsets.
So
then
what?
Believe me. These shops are not going to rewrite to
native AS400
next week.
We are talking
simple businesses that work fine as is.
Joe Frank, senior architect of SSP, told me that you can
teach a person
to
run a S36 in
one day and they can. You can teach a person to run
an
AS400
in a week and
they still can't do it.
:-)
Jerry
Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and
Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's,
Windows,
Linux,
Sun, and
AS/400
Representing
Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, 3Com and Others
.....
<http://www.trilosoft.com> - (415) 457-3431 - (415) 258-1658fax -
jdraper@trilosoft.com
midrange.com
